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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1949
Opportunity Is Knocking'
Opportunity knocks at the doors of
communities just as it does at the doors
of human beings.
Many communities have heard it knock
ing and passed it up. Cokesbury, once a
famous old educational center, heard it
knocking in the form of a chance to se
cure a railroad. To get the road Cokes
bury would have had to vote bonds. It
passed the opportunity up. Greenwood
took it and became a city while Cokesbury
dried up. Dallas, N. C., once the county
seat of Gaston county, heard it knocking
in the form of a chance to secure a rail
road. It, too, declined to issue the bonds
necessary. Gastonia did and became a
city while Dallas dried up.
There are thousands of similar instances
all over this country. These ^happen to
be two with which we are very familiar.
Opportunity is knocking at the door of
Camden now.
Will we hear it or will we, like Cokes
bury and Dallas, ignore it?
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Bolder and Bolder
In New York City last week, 100 men
and women (communists) marched about
a Federal court house, in open defiance
of orders of a presiding judge, sang ribald
songs and were insulting to a member of
a jury that the last 32 weeks has been on
duty as the trial of 11 men indicted for
conspiracy to overthrow the government.
The^Communists thought this all right
and if an attempt had been made to arrest
them they would have set up a cry that
'their “constitutional rights” were being
violated. . ' »
Last week when Paul Robeson, negro
singer, attempted to give an open-air*con
cert at Peekskill, New York, a group of
war veterans marched to J the picnic
grounds planning to make so much fuss
that Robeson could not be heard.
The Communists are hollering loudly
about this, demanding an investigation,
and that the veterans be punished.
The Communist doctrine is .to preach
violence towards the other man but to
hjller “constitutional rights” when it is
applied to them. -
Meanwhile they are getting bolder and
bolder in this country and it seems that
if anything is to be done about them it
will have to be done by groups like those
New York veterans. Certainly our govern
ment doesn’t intend to do anything about
them. '
The Mistake
J. K. Breedin, who writes a column en
titled “The Spectator” which appears in
South Carolina weekly and daily news
papers, thinks that when it came to the
election of a national committeeman to
succeed Governor ; Thurmond, the state
Democratic executive committee should
have selected some outstanding States
Righter.
“Three men,” says Mr. Breedin, “have
stood^ out boldly all the way: Eugene S.
Blease, George Warren and R. M. Ken
nedy. One of the three would have stood
out as representative of the movement.”
While The Chronicle agrees with Mr.
Breedin that any one of the three men
named above would have been a proper
choice for the committee to have made if
it was going to elect any one, we feel that
a mistake was made in electing anybody.
Why should South Carolinians crawl on
their stomachs to the national Democratic
executive committee seeking a place on
it after it has plainly told us that the
only way we can get recognition is to
repudiate the principles for which we
stand? ’•
We don’t believe Mr. Blease, Mr. War
ren or Mr. Kennedy would have served if
they had been elected, because they are
not the stomach-crawling type. Not a
one of the three would be willing to sell
his birthright for a mess of pottage.
Th« American Legion was wise in pass
ing a resolution demanding that the United
States “curtail as far as possible any fur
ther immigration.” We’d better try to
assimilate what we have here now.
On the “Lot Mile”
Herbert Hoover, former President of the
United States, marked his seventy-fifth
birthday recently by issuing a profound
warning that uncontrolled government
spending has brought this country to the
“last mile on the back road to collectiv
ism.” He added that we are “blissfully
driving” down this “last mile” at top
speed.
Cecil Palmer,. British publisher, author
and journalist, now in this country, said
ift a speech the other day that the speed
at which the United States is “moving
down the road” toward socialism has
shocked him. “I came here,” he said, “to
depress you about socialism in England.
Instead you are depressing me.”
Representative Ralph W. Gwinn, of New
York, in a speech in the lower 'house of
Congress took occasion to point out the
road signs on the road^o socialism which
we are traveling.
“We know,” said Representaive Gwynn,
“that our American government has, in
recent years, changed its character. It has
become an overwhelming and omnipresent
machine of controls and compulsions.
Every day of our lives it manages our
money, credit, prices, farming, rents and
housing, foreign trade, social security,
production, transportation, communication
and education. . It regulates, controls and
taxes business almost to the point of ex
tinction. When we die inheritance taxes
close the final chapter of exploitation,”
Mr. Gwinn then attempted to show how
we are following the Marxist concepts of
government in this country.
“Many enlightened scholars, he said,
“have expressed doubt as to whether any
government can take more than 2 days
in ten from the people, or 20 per cent of
the nation’s income and still leave a people
able to take care of themselves. Above
that level, Socialist management becomes
inevitable. We must remember that as
recently as 1930, London and Paris man
aged only 21 per cent of their national
economy; Berlin managed 22 per cent and
brought bn national socialism three years
later. Moscow, after 13 years of social
ism, managed only 29 per cent of the Rus
sian economy. Can we be excused if we
fail to take to heart these facts and govern
ourselves accordingly?”
Thoughtful men—men who love Amer
ica with a passion—are everywhere sound
ing the alarm in an effort to awaken the
great sleeping masses of the people, who
are letting the politici^jis, whose first
thought is of their own personal gain, take
them on this last wild ride, a ride which
as Mr. Hoover has so* forcibly said, has
brought us to the “last mile on the back
road to collectivism.”
What will it take to awaken the people
before it is everlastingly too late ?
Losing Prestige
Some three weeks ago The Camden
Chronicle expressed the belief that the
backbone displayed by Marshal Tito in
defying Russia might tend to cause other
satellite states to become more defiant.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Washington on Tuesday of last week said:
“Stalin’s grip on the Communist satellite
states has been reported sharply shaken
by his row with Marshal Tito of Yugo
slavia. That information comes in highly
responsible reports reaching Washington
from Eastern Europe.”
The dispatch went on to say that “some
political factions which have played along
with the Communists have been attracted
by the Tito success in defying the Kremlin.
If ever the Red Army was puUed back
into Russia they might be inclined to jump
the traces on MoscoW^completely.”
It is The Chronicle’s belief that unless
Stalin is able to whip Yugoslavia back in
line, he Will suffer the loss of more of his
satellite states or else be forced to resort
to desperate means to hold them in line.
Not Shaking Hands
A delegation of farmers from Dillon and
Williamsburg counties called on President
Truman to invite him to speak in Lake
City or Dillon. NotwitKstfiMing the fact
that Neville Bennett, who seems to have
acted as their spokesman, told the presi
dent that the group “for the most part
are loyal Democrats and most of this group
have voted as Democrats all or most of
thoir lives,” the President didn’t take the
trouble to shake hands with them as he
usually does when a delegation calls like
that.
Well, perhaps he was right.
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That Russian flyfr who went home after
staying in this country a few weeks is said
to have been disillusioned when he found
out that “people in this country bad to
work.” He hadn’t been here long enough
to learn* the ropes.
Ihinklnq Out Loud
Why can’t the same rale apply
In fiafelnc that applies in marrying
so that one wouldn’t have to pay
for a license until after the flab
la canght?
The Knoxville; Tenn.. city coun
cil says that it will never build &
modern baseball park in KnoxviUe
until the city baa secured a fran
chise In the Southern League. Carl
Lyerly, owner of the Knoxville
club, says the Southern League
wiU never grant that city a fran-
chiae until It has a modern ball
park. Reminds us of the mother
who told her little son that he
couldn’t go Into the water until
he learned how to swim. And aleo,
which was here first the hen or
the egg?
A magazine tells of a man In
Wyoming, who hunts dodos even
though he kpows they are extinct
That’s nothing—Republicans keep
on running for President.
Scientists are said to believe
that ’’mankind is standing on the
threshold of oblivion.” Yes, on
two or three of them.
A new ‘ motor horn Is said to
make a noise like a chord on a
harp. We agree with the fellow
who said that this was a nasty
hint To pedestrians.
M i street meet of
Is it oonrteoua, la It fair, for
the white ”Democrat*’’ in South
Carolina to Invite President Tru
man to vMt the state without of
fering the ‘‘Progreeclve Demo
crats.’’ colored ’’Democrat*,” op*
portunity to Join in extend Inc the
invitation? Are South Carolina’s
white Truman “Democrats” defend
ers and practicer* of “race dis
crimination.” of Jim Crow?—News
and Conrrier.
Reprisal
The decision to close Fort Jack-
son as an army post haa certain po
litical thinkers saying that the dos
ing is a reprisal move by the ad
ministration for the opposition that
the Dtxlecrats gave during the 1948
genera] election. They say that the
closing of Fort Jackson will react
against Governor Thurmond in. the
coming election for United States
Senator. ^
We do not believe Fort Jackson
is being closed for the reason stat
ed sbove but rather that it it be
ing closed ss an economy move
by-the government. If the closing
reacts unfavorably towards the
candidacy of Governor Thurmond
it cartainly should react against
the re-election of Senator Olitt D.
Johnston since he claims to, have
much influence in Washington
and could , dot stave off the cloeing
of the army installation.—Lee
County Meaaenger.
ment positlMM in this and other
countries are suffering from stom
ach ulcers and fiattgue brought on
by worry. These men haven't
learned to relax, and vital decisions
are often made according to how a
stomah feds rather than what is
the best policy. Laughter Is
best medicine for physical or
Expensive Rotate Spree
The Federal government Is up
to its neck in every kind of busi
ness including the potato business
with theylapartment of agriculture
fixing a nigh price for the crop
which means that the house wives
pay more for their bag at the
grocery store. There came a sur
plus and in a harry the govern
ment bought potatoes to do with
them what they could. They are
being given away in this county
and every other part of the coun
try for school lunch rooms. Thous
ands of bushels rotted. Others
were sold for Indus trial uses at
about l-89tad of wHht the govern
ment had paid for them with your
money. The whole operation cost
rapport price.
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Torrs Catskill mountS^kl
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Pilots won’t be conf^
JJ|«e ( «heo .Mccttn, tw
it would be all right If people
would only try to get along with
other people, but that doesn’t satis
fy them. They want to get ahead
of them.
Tlfe National Labor Relations
Board has ordered an industrial
plant In South Carolina, which has
gone out of business, to reinstate
two workers who were fired last
July before the plant went out of
business. Who says this Is not
a “wacky" age in which we now
find ourselves?
Asked the secret of long life In
a. recent survey, eight Japanese
centenarians Uhe oldest 109) all
said: “Do not eat too much.'
Europe ought to have a lot-of cen
tenarians in the future.
It*s a*rather dull week when
one of the Roosevelt children don't
get a divorce or marry again.
An expert on citrus crops comes
forth with the information that
two out of every three oranges are
squeezed. Nearly all peaches are.
A philosopher says that one
trouble with the world today is
that not enough consideration is
give* to cause and effect. And
that reminds us of the story of
the old colored barber whose corn
likker had left his hand a little
unsteady so that when he shaved
the Colonel he left a number of
knicks and scratches. The Colonel
grimaced ruefully in the mirror
and. observed: “See what drinking
of hard liquor does to a man,
Zeb?” “Yassah,” replied Zeb, “it
shb’ do leab de skin tender, doan
it?”
Runs in hosiery keep the hosiery
mills running.
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A bird attacked a sleeping man
in New York the other day. You
can never tell what’s in the air
these days.
A doctor without patience may
soon beconrfe a doctor without
patients.
Won’t it be good to feel the feel
of a felt hat again?
We see where one fellow says
that an atom-powered space ship
would get to the moon in two days.
Yes but since the average man
gels only a week’s vacation be
would have to-spend most of his
time en rout* and returning.
“Baby cottontail rabbits are able
to care for themselves at the age
of three weeks,” says a newspaper
filler. Yes, but they very often get
into a stew.
An eoonoiqist says that a good
bqsiness man should always be
prepared for any eventuality. And
that reminds us of the story of
the mercantile establishment in
which they have a book where a
record is kept of the exact reason
why any customer leaves without
making a purchase. One day a j
woman customer took up a good
deal of time looking at black dres
ses, finally leaving without buying.
The clerk—a temporary employee
—solemnly approached the book
and wrote: •‘Customer only look
ing at black 4rasaee—not buying.
Husband not dead yet.”
If Paul Robeson were where he
ought to be, either In Jafl or in
Russia—personally we would rath
er he be in the former than In
the latter—New , York would not
have bee® having the trouble it
haa been having with him latqly.
Would you say that Ashton Wil
liams and Ransome Williams are
now in a state of suspended anima
tion as a result of recent political
developments?
‘‘Major Clarence D. Lang, 84,
retired army officer, asked the
Superior Court to annul his mar
riage to Mrs. Mildred W. Lang,
81, because she did not tell him he
*as her seventh husband. He said
she told him he was her fifth hus
band.”—The Los Augeles dispatch.
~«ne people *re very poor at
arithmetic!
Pun Is Better Than Medicine
Editor R. F. Beasley of The Mon
roe Journal last week made one
of his sensible and philosophical
comments on the funnies that are
running In the papers today. Broth
er Beasley says that “Major
Hoople" and “Mutt and Jeff’’ are
the only funnies that are funny.
We have often wondered why
dailies waste so much space with
the junk they fill the comic page
with. The moet of the stripe fea
ture gangsters and other evil
characters who constantly keep
the hero or heroine in hot water,
and, although thp bad characters
may get tlie worst of the deal, we
doubt If any useful purpose is
served in keeping them before Im
pressionable children.
We may be wrong, but we have
an idea that the play crime gets
in the newspapers and on the radio,
Is partly responsible for the tre
mendous Increase in crime in the
last few decades. It has also been
determined by judges of juvenile
courts that a majority of those
tried in these courts are readers
of the so-c ailed comics. While
their creators claim they teach the
moral that crime doesn’t pay,
comics are potentially dangerous
in that the young may miss the
point and look at the glamour
around a kidnapper or thief.
But what we started out to aay,
Is that the country could tolerate a
little more comedy and Idughter,
and a little leas seriousness in
dealing with the buslnss of liv
ing. By that we don’t mean that
we should laugh off a crime wave,
or that all of ua should go around
with saccharine smirks on our
faces, but that a person who is
happy seldom gets into trouble.
The majority of problems come
from discontent, from taking things
too seriously, and the best antidote
for discontent Is a good belly
laugh. If folks could learn to see
the funny side instead of .the
serious, they would stop worrying,
and when they stopped worrying
their brains would start working,
and they have enough sense to do
the right thing. It is said that
most of the men in high govern-
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